[1489] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: So what is the answer?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abernathy)
Thu Oct 10 18:29:00 1991
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 91 17:20:38 CDT
From: edtjda@magic322.chron.com (Joe Abernathy)
To: com-priv@psi.com, uunet!dino.bbn.com!jtidwell@uunet.UU.NET
uunet!dino.bbn.com!jtidwell writes:
Now I have a couple of questions. Joe, you said in an earlier posting
that there were "four alternate methods" for students on TENET to receive
"controversial material" without a Usenet feed. Could you give us some
details on these? Maybe we can help propose solutions. (Yes, I can
think of some offhand, but I want to hear which ones you had in mind.)
Connie, when he answers the above question, could you tell us how these
methods will be dealt with (if at all), or if they are considered to be
non-problems given the students' training and supervision?
- Jenifer Tidwell
jtidwell@bbn.com
(standard disclaimers apply)
"at least four alternate methods come to mind."
Mail servers are the easiest. Mailing lists are another popular
alternative. Some implementations of NNTP are structured in such
a fashion that nominal restrictions to information can be avoided.
Anonymous FTP, well, it's anonymous FTP. WAIS could conceivably be
used for some novel ways of retrieving colorful material.
Joe
